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  • JEANINE".

  • >> EARLIER I CAUGHT UP WITH TED

  • CRUZ ON CAPITOL HILL TO GET HIS

  • TAKE ON OPENING ARGUMENTS FROM

  • TRUMP'S DEFENSE TEAM IN CASE THE

  • DEMS LAYOUT EARLIER THIS WEEK.

  • TAKE A LOOK.

  • THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR TAKING

  • TIME OUT, I KNOW IT IS A BUSY

  • DAY AND I KNOW YOU BEEN IN

  • WASHINGTON FOR A LONG TIME.

  • BUT I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR

  • DOING THIS.

  • TODAY WAS A VERY INTERESTING

  • DAY.

  • TODAY WAS THE FIRST DAY THAT THE

  • PRESIDENT'S TEAM HAD OPPORTUNITY

  • TO LAY OUT WHAT IT IS THE INTENT

  • TO PROVE.

  • YOU BEEN IN MANY COURTROOMS,

  • WHAT DID IT FEEL LIKE TODAY,

  • HOW'S IT DIFFERENT, HE'S IN

  • POWER, HE'S DONE THIS, YOU THINK

  • HE'S A DICTATOR.

  • >> I THINK IT WAS GRATIFYING,

  • THEN FIRST TIME THE PRESIDENT

  • HAS HAD TO DEFEND HIM THROUGHOUT

  • THE WHOLE PROCEEDING IN THE

  • HOUSE, THEY WOULD NOT LET THE

  • PRESIDENT DEFEND HIMSELF.

  • I THINK EVERY SENATOR IS

  • GRATEFUL THAT THE NEVER ENDING

  • OPENING ARGUMENT, THE 24 HOURS

  • OF NONSTOP FROM THE HOUSE

  • MANAGERS OPEN.

  • AS THEY ARE CLOSING ARGUMENT

  • ENDED LAST NIGHT, MY SENSE IN

  • THE SENSE OF A LOT OF PEOPLE,

  • THEY FAILED TO PROVE THEIR CASE.

  • TODAY THE PRESIDENT'S LAWYERS,

  • DID INEFFECTIVE JOB REPORTING

  • HOW SELECTIVE THEIR QUOTATIONS

  • WERE FROM THE RECORD, HOW MUCH

  • THEY LEFT OUT AND I'M REALLY

  • LOOKING FORWARD TO MONDAY.

  • ON MONDAY STARTING AT 1:00 P.M.

  • WE COME BACK TO THE TRIAL IN THE

  • PRESIDENT'S LAWYERS WILL PRESENT

  • THE PRINTABLE DEFENSE AND WHAT I

  • HOPE TO HEAR FROM THEM IS A

  • SUBSTANCE DEFENSE ON THE MERITS.

  • THAT LAYS OUT THE CASE ON THE

  • FACTS FOR THE PRESIDENT'S

  • INNOCENCE.

  • I THINK THE HOUSE MANAGERS MADE

  • A CRITICAL MISTAKE ON HOW THEY

  • STRUCTURE THEIR ARGUMENT.

  • A CENTRAL ELEMENT OF THEIR

  • ARGUMENT IS A PROPOSITION THAT

  • IT WAS FACELESS AND FRIVOLOUS TO

  • WANT TO INVESTIGATE MARIE'S MOM

  • UKRAINIAN NATURAL GAS COMPANY

  • AND WHETHER OR NOT JOE BIDEN AND

  • HUNTER BIDEN WERE PAYING 100

  • BUCKS A YEAR IN THEY PRESSURED

  • HIM AND THREATENED $1 BILLION IN

  • AID TO FORCE UKRAINE TO FIRE THE

  • PROSECUTOR WHO WAS INVESTIGATING

  • BURISMA.

  • >> HOW DOES THIS TRIAL RESOLVE

  • ANY OF THAT.

  • THIS IS ABOUT ONE DEFENDANT AND

  • I HATE EVEN REFERRING TO HIM AS

  • THAT.

  • >> THE HOUSE MANAGERS LAID OUT

  • THE PROPOSITION THAT IT WAS

  • BASELESS, FRAUDULENT, PHONY AND

  • NO BASIS WHATSOEVER FOR SEEKING

  • AN INVESTIGATION INTO BURISMA,

  • THE TOTAL ANSWER IS THERE WAS

  • OVERWHELMING EVIDENCE OF

  • CORRUPTION AND A PRESIDENT IS

  • ALWAYS JUSTIFIED.

  • HE HAS A RESPONSIBILITY TO

  • INVESTIGATE CORRUPTION.

  • THE FUNDAMENTAL ARGUMENT THAT

  • DISPOSES OF THIS CASE, IT MAKES

  • CLEAR THE PRESIDENT DID NOTHING

  • IMPEACHABLE AS HE HAS THE

  • AUTHORITY TO INVESTIGATE

  • CORRUPTION.

  • THE HOUSE MANAGER GOES FROM THE

  • DOOR DID HUNTER BIDEN TESTIFY,

  • THEY MADE IT RELEVANT AND

  • CRITICAL.

  • >> LET'S TALK ABOUT ONE OF THE

  • THINGS THAT I THOUGHT WAS VERY

  • IMPORTANT THAT MIGHT LEAD TO A

  • MOTION TO DISMISS.

  • I WANT YOUR OPINION THAT, THEY

  • BASICALLY SAID THAT THE SECOND

  • ARTICLE OF OBSTRUCTION IS NOT

  • BASED IN ANY THING SUBSTANTIVE

  • BECAUSE THE HOUSE THAT NANCY

  • PELOSI ANNOUNCE WE ARE GOING TO

  • BEGIN THIS IMPEACHMENT

  • INVESTIGATION HAD NO

  • JURISDICTION OF AUTHORITY TO

  • GRANT SUBPOENAS.

  • THEREFORE IF THE PRESIDENT DID

  • NOT ABIDE BY THE SUBPOENAS IT IS

  • NOT OBSTRUCTION.

  • THERE HAS TO BE A VOTE IN THE

  • HOUSE.

  • >> THAT IS CERTAINLY A LEGAL

  • ARGUMENT THAT THE PRESIDENT'S

  • LAWYERS ARE PUTTING FORTH, THEY

  • PUT IT IN FORTH IN THEIR BRIEF.

  • THE OBSTRUCTION CHARGES

  • SECONDARY TO THE HOUSE MANAGERS

  • CASE.

  • THIS CASE -- I DON'T THINK YOU

  • WILL SEE A MOTION TO DISMISS.

  • THE WAY THINGS THEY WILL PLAY

  • OUT, WE WILL SEE THE OPENING

  • ARGUMENT CONTINUE ON MONDAY,

  • MAYBE TUESDAY THEN WE WILL HAVE

  • 16 HOURS OF QUESTIONS FROM

  • SENATORS.

  • WE CANNOT ASSESS QUESTIONS

  • OURSELVES, I WOULD LOVE TO GO

  • ROUND AND ROUND WITH ADAM

  • SCHIFF, BUT THE SENATE RULES DO

  • NOT ALLOW.

  • INSTEAD WE HAVE TO WRITE YOUR

  • QUESTIONS IN THE CHIEF JUSTICE

  • WILL ASK QUESTIONS FOR US.

  • WHAT I EXPECT TO SEE AFTER THAT,

  • WE WILL VOTE ON ADDITIONAL

  • WITNESSES IT BE NECESSARY AND

  • WHETHER IN ORDER.

  • THAT MAY BE A CLOSE VOTE, WE

  • KNOW 47 DEMOCRATS WILL VOTE YES.

  • THERE MIGHT BE FOR REPUBLICANS

  • WHO VOTE WITH THEM.

  • I DO NOT KNOW.

  • >> THOSE SUPPORT ROMNEY AND

  • SUSAN COLLINS AND LISA

  • MURKOWSKI, AND LAMAR?

  • >> THAT'S THE RUMOR.

  • I DON'T THINK THERE'S NEED FOR

  • ADDITIONAL WITNESSES, WE HAVE

  • MORE THAN ENOUGH TO REJECT THESE

  • ARTICLES ON THE MERITS BUT THEY

  • HAVE NOT PROVEN THEIR CASE.

  • >> AND THERE IN THE MOTION TO

  • DISMISS.

  • >> I DON'T THINK IT'LL BE A

  • MOTION TO DISMISS.

  • >> IT'LL BE INITIALLY A VOTE ON

  • WITNESSES.

  • IF WE'LL VOTE NO ADDITIONAL

  • WITNESSES ARE NECESSARY, THE

  • NEXT VOTE WILL BE A MASON FOR

  • JUSTICE.

  • RATHER THAN DISMISS WE WILL GO

  • TO JUDGMENT AND ACQUIT THE

  • PRESIDENT WHICH MEANS WE WILL

  • STAND UP AND VOTE GUILTY OR NOT

  • GUILTY ON EACH OF THE ARTICLES.

  • IT'S A MUCH BETTER OUTCOME FOR

  • THE PRESIDENT AND COUNTRY FOR

  • HIM TO BE ACQUITTED, NOT

  • DISMISSED AND THROW THE CASE OUT

  • BUT REACH FINAL JUDGMENT AND

  • FIND THE PRESIDENT NOT GUILTY.

  • THAT WILL BE THE END OF THIS

  • BECAUSE THE HOUSE MANAGERS HAVE

  • NOT MET THE CONSTITUTIONAL

  • STANDARD APPROVING HIGH CRIMES

  • AND MISDEMEANORS.

  • THE PRESIDENT HAS THE AUTHORITY

  • TO INVESTIGATE SERIOUS

  • ALLEGATION OF CORRUPTION.

  • THERE WERE MASSIVE ALLEGATIONS

  • OF CORRUPTION, AT LEAST ENOUGH

  • EVIDENCE TO JUSTIFY AN

  • INVESTIGATION.

  • >> IN THE END, HOW LONG YOU

  • THINK THIS WILL TAKE.

  • I KNOW YOU TALK ABOUT THE

  • WITNESSES TAKING TIME.

  • >> THERE'S A FORK IN THE ROAD,

  • IF IT IS 51 SENATORS VOTE, WE

  • DON'T NEED ADDITIONAL AND THIS

  • WILL END NEXT WEEK.

  • IF 51 SENATORS SAY WE NEED

  • ADDITIONAL WITNESSES, IF THAT

  • HAPPENS WE HAVE GOT TO BE FAIR,

  • WE HAVE TO FOLLOW THE PRINCIPLE

  • WHICH MEANS IF THEY GET JOHN

  • BOLTON, WE GET HUNTER BIDEN.

  • WE GO DOWN THE ROAD TO

  • WITNESSES, THIS COULD TAKE WEEKS

  • OR MONTHS.

  • BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY THE

  • RESULT WILL BE THE SAME.

  • WHAT I DO EVERY DAY WHEN I LEAVE

  • THE TRIAL, I AM GOING IN

  • BUILDING A PODCAST, HIS VERDICT

  • WITH TED CRUZ, I BILLED IT AT

  • THREE IN THE MORNING BECAUSE

  • THAT'S WHEN WE WERE DONE.

  • JUST TALKING ABOUT ANY DETAIL

  • FORM, THE FACTS, THE SUBSTANCE

  • IN THE CONSTITUTIONAL ISSUES AT

  • STAKE.

  • I'VE NEVER DONE A PODCAST

  • BEFORE, IN FOUR DAYS WOULD

  • BECOME THE NUMBER TWO PODCAST IN

  • THE COUNTRY.

  • >> CONGRATULATIONS.

  • SECONDLY THIS IS YOUR REAL

  • HOUSE, I WAS IN THERE TODAY, I

  • WAS AFRAID I WAS GOING TO FALL

  • OVER THE RAILING.

  • BUT I HEAR PEOPLE FALLING ASLEEP

  • AND I SAY TO MYSELF HOW CAN YOU

  • FALL ASLEEP, IT'S EXCITING.

  • BUT IT'S EXCITING HAVING YOU

JEANINE".

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